Acopio, a social venture that translates from the Spanish as "harvest," picked up the $10,000 first-place prize in the Big Ideas scaling-up category, which helps previous contest winners advance existing projects.
Growers who were patient, waiting until late October or even November to harvest, picked Riesling grapes that were unusually ripe — but also, bizarrely, unusually high in acidity, which normally fades the more the grapes ripen.
In manual fruit and vegetable harvesting, picking time statistics can be used to improve labour management and optimise the design and operation of harvest-aiding machines, such as conventional cross-row conveyors or recently proposed robotic transport carts.
We categorized maternal work status into agricultural fieldwork (such as harvesting, picking, thinning, or weeding), other agricultural work (away from the fields, such as packing shed or nursery work), and nonagricultural work/not employed.
The LMS reliably calculated the harvest rate, picking cost, weight of harvested fruit, number of harvested buckets, range in fruit weight per bucket, and mean fruit weight per bucket, in real time.
... Pinot Noir often gets tagged with the "finicky" label though several winemakers and growers, like Aaron Piotter at Bear Flag Wine and Ryan Decker at Rodney Strong Vineyards, pointed to zinfandel's notoriously uneven ripening and the challenge of timing the harvest pick just right.
The winter wheat harvest is picking up with drying fields, while the weather has been almost ideal for corn and soybeans, analysts said.
At harvest, when picking frequently begins in the dead of night under glaring lights, Mr. Bazán's goal was to accrue enough hours to save $2,000.
"Why not?" "Gotta get up north to Washington for the apple harvest to pick some crop and make a little money.
